Andy Petroski Director & Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies [email protected] @apetroski http://www.harrisburgu.edu/learningtechnologies http://www.harrisburgu.edu/caelt apetroski.wikispaces.com
Gamification
Increase Brand Loyalty
Increase Engagement
Change Behavior
Differentiate
Gamification
the concept of applying game-design thinking to non-game
applications to make them more fun and engaging
Gamification
Loyalty Programs (redemption)
Game Design (engagement)
Behavioral Economics
(status/reputation)
Some facts… • 2011 Gartner Research Report it is
estimated that by 2015, more than 50% of
organizations that manage innovation
processes will gamify those processes.
• The trend has been picking up major
momentum over the last two years and
has gained support from industry heavy
weights such as Bing Gordon, Al Gore,
J.P. Rangaswami, Chief Scientist of
Salesforce.com, and many more.
Al Gore talks about how "Games are
the new normal" and the power of
Gamification at the 2011 Games for
Change Festival.
Gamification in Action!
Gamification Loop
Challenges
Game Play
Win/Loss conditions
leaderboards badges
Social networking
status
Reward System
story character goal
obstacles feedback levels
Juicy Feedback Tactile
The player can almost feel the feedback as it is occurring on screen. Feedback is not forced or
unnatural within the game play.
Inviting It’s something the player desires to achieve, as the player interacts with the game, they want the
feedback and work to get the positive feedback. The player is given just the right amount of
power and rewards.
Repeatable The feedback can be received again and again if the goals, challenges or obstacles are met.
Coherent The feedback stays within the context of the game. It is congruent with on screen actions and
activities as well as with the storyline unfolding as the interactions occur.
Continuous It is not something that the player has to wait for, it occurs as a natural result of interacting within
the context of game environment.
Emergent It flows naturally from the game, it unfolds in an orderly and well sequenced fashion. It feels like
it belongs within the context of the environment, it is not distracting.
Balanced The player knows they are receiving feedback and they are reacting based on the feedback but
they are not overwhelmed by the feedback or thinking of it as direct feedback.
Fresh The feedback is a little surprising contains some unexpected twists and is interesting and inviting.
The surprises are welcomed and congruent with the continuous feedback.
Six rules…
1. Understand what constitutes a “win” for the player
and organization
2. Expose the player’s intrinsic motivation and progress
to mastery
3. Design for the emotional human, not the rational
human
Six rules…
4. Develop scalable, meaningful intrinsic and extrinsic
rewards
5. Use one of the leading platform vendors to scale
your project
6. Most interactions are boring, make everything a little
more fun
Too easy
Too frustrating
But wait… • Creating these types of games is hard work (so what else is new)
• Just adding points and badges doesn’t make something fun and an
improperly balanced reward system will negatively effect the behavior
you are trying to address.
• The true magic happens when a player
succeeds in a challenge which seemed
(or was) daunting and beyond their skill
level.
• Players are motivated by different things.
So we have to consider different
experiences for varying player types.
“In some ways it is a fad – adding points
and badges in tacky ways, looking at
‘gamification’ as an easy way to make boring
things seem interesting – that is a fad.
However, the idea of designing business
processes so that those who engage in them
find them more intrinsically rewarding –
that is a long term trend.”
- Jesse Schell, CEO Schell Games
Gamify Your Brand|Product|Event
Resources
• Vendors
– Bunchball, Badgeville, BigDoor, SCVNGR, CrowdTwist, Natron Baxter
Resources
• PearlTrees - http://bit.ly/IhdQod
• Jesse Schell – The Pleasure Revolution http://bit.ly/J15rbp
• Gabe Zicherman - http://bit.ly/IUiWFZ
• Gamification.org/wiki
• Concept of “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - bit.ly/conceptofflow
Resources
• Gamification Summit NYC; November 19 http://global13.gsummit.com/nyc
• 8 Tips to Create a Killer Gamification Strategy http://bit.ly/15bhbi7
• Harrisburg University www.harrisburgu.edu/learningtechnologies
– Graduate courses
– Workshops
– Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies www.harrisburgu.edu/caelt
– 4 on the 4th at 4 http://444.harrisburgu.edu
Andy Petroski Director & Assistant Professor of Learning Technologies [email protected] @apetroski http://www.harrisburgu.edu/learningtechnologies http://www.harrisburgu.edu/caelt apetroski.wikispaces.com